Best bad movie of the year. Best because it's carefully crafted, streamlined entertainment, bad because it's monumentally silly. We know it's awful, but we have fun anyway. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

The pleasure in the storytelling arc is how elements move swiftly together. Nolan's biggest trick is the film starts out being epic and moves effortlessly to the intimate .... - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

We get the Chinese exports that are huge blockbusters, but there's clearly a market for a slight, romantic mystery that in the United States would air on the Lifetime channel. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

The point where it breaks loose is when the movie shifts mood and tone in order to reprise the cheesy pop songs from the 1967 animated film. Way to renew copyright, Disney! - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

Skates almost entirely on the luminous strength of its two stars. DeNiro and Hathaway have an evident chemistry ... if a man had written the film, they'd wind up in the sack! - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

There is a howling deadness at the heart of "Friends" however; it lies in the charisma-challenged relationship of Zac Efron's Young DJ and Emily Ratajkowski's Hot Girlfriend. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

Just in time, the first time Ant-Man shrinks down to ant size, it's such a wonder of marvelous CGI magic that everyone in the theater wakes up like an alarm has gone off. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

The harsh reality of mortality interferes with the budding, golden lives of young people. Not just those who die, but those who have to experience the bummerness of it all. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

The cast, OMG. There are more people crowded in here - either in major roles or in brilliant cameos (Andy Serkis, I'm looking at you) - than are at Walgreens' on prom night. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

When the full force of the disease hits, Hawking is reduced to a twist-tie of a human being, sentenced to a life of gigantic thoughts and pathetic movements. He's pretzelled. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

Charmingly old-school FDR-Democrat foxhole-buddy Americana: Citizens from all walks of life facing a common enemy and working together - a touchingly old-fashioned notion.) - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

Paranoid anomie was just the thing in a post-Watergate world back in the '70s, and movies then reflected it. That makes this delightfully, unapologetically old-fashioned. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

Pretty much a "Twister" reboot, full of CGI sturm und drang (probably the only time that phrase is actually appropriate) albeit simultaneously more serious and less impactful. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

The movie is a genuine cultural artifact, a relic given to us by a band of entertainers from long ago, who live in self-imposed exile in the dusty, neon hellhole of Las Vegas. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

How you react to "And So It Goes" depends entirely on your appreciation of Diane Keaton. The movie is so Keaton-centric it might as well have been titled "La Di Da, La Di Da." - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

It's worth pointing out that two dozen journalists have been killed in the line of duty on Afghanistan's front lines, bringing the war back home. And they can't shoot back. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT

"Need For Speed" is actually based on a best-selling video game, and it certainly has video-game tropes throughout. Video-game players may feel their thumbs reacting unconsciously. - Honolulu Star-AdvertiserEDIT